Jake Gyllenhaal pops a 9-1-1 in teaser for ‘The Guilty’

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Yesterday, Academy Award nominee Jake Gyllenhaal (Brokeback Mountain) teased us with to discover the mystery of his new film The Guilty by calling a phone number and hearing the first heart-stopping phone call between 911 operator and a cryptic woman named Emily. Whether by looking at the sky in LA and OC, or following clues on Instagram, fans could dive into the world of The Guilty.

The film takes place over the course of a single morning in a 911 dispatch call center. Call operator Joe Baylor (Gyllenhaal) tries to save a caller in grave danger—but he soon discovers that nothing is as it seems, and facing the truth is the only way out.

Antoine Fuqua (Training Day) directs from a script by Nic Pizzolatto (True Detective) and is an American remake of the 2018 Danish film of the same name co-written and directed by Gustav Möller. The film co-stars Ethan Hawke, Peter Sarsgaard, Riley Keough, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Paul Dano, and Bill Burr.

Gyllenhaal produced the film under his Nine Stories Productions banner with Riva Marker plus Fuqua, Kat Samick, Scott Greenberg, Michel Litvak, Gary Michael Walters, David Litvak, Svetlana Metkina and David Haring.

The Guilty will world premiere at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival before heading to select theaters on September 24 and Netflix on October 1.

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Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.

He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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